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Scholarly Articles in Education

Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
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Comprehensive database of education research, including journal articles, books, reports, and other sources.
Also freely available through www.eric.ed.gov.
ProQuest Education Database
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A large database of education research, including journal articles, books, reports, and other sources. Similar to ERIC.
PsycINFO
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Essential database of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, and dissertations in psychology and related behavioral sciences from 1887 - present.
Includes PsycARTICLES journals.
Teacher Reference Center
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Includes abstracts and full text of articles from 280 journals in the area of education and school administration. Covers all levels of education, including K-12 and higher education.

PolicyFile
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Provides access to articles on public policy research and analysis from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers. Covers a wide range of topics from international trade to health care reform, from telecommunications regulation to terrorism. Most content is NOT peer-reviewed.

Consortium for Policy Research in Education
"CPRE researchers have made their mark studying the effectiveness of federal, state, and local policies, with particular emphasis on accountability systems, school finance, teacher quality initiatives, assessment systems, and school governance."
National Center for Education Statistics -- Condition of Education Reports
Condition of Education is an annual publication from the NCES summarizing the most requested statistics on Education in the United States. See more NCES publications bysearching their Publications page .
Governing Urban Schools in the Future: What’s Facing Philadelphia and Pennsylvania
The Pew Charitable Trusts commissioned an analysis comparing key elements of
Philadelphia’s school governance system with those of 15 other major urban districts.

Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Researcher
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Includes in-depth reports on key issues in many aspects of American life and politics, including education, with references to scholarly sources, reports, and newspaper articles.
Oxford Bibliographies in Education
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Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on the study of education. Bibliographies are browseable by subject area and keyword searchable.

You can readily find targeted information using Google by employing site or domain searching.

For example, site:.gov will return only US government websites.

Other examples include site:edu (institutions of education) and site:.org (non-profits).

You can also search specific websites or domains.

For example, site:pa.gov will search Pennsylvania government websites.

You could search site:pa.gov schools AND poverty to find results on PA government websites about schools and poverty.